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Safe Haven hires Chilliwack-based consultant to support 'difficult' transition period
CHILLIWACK - An animal shelter at the center of controversy over the past few weeks has now hired a consultant to support its transition process.The Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven Society's board of dir...
Mar 14, 2026 Bubbles, a cat under the care of the Chilliwack Safe Haven. (Image Credit: Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven / GoFundMe)
2 charged after missing B.C. mathematician found dead in Mission
MISSION - Two people are now facing charges in relation to a B.C. mathematician's death- over one month after he went missing. On the evening of February 2, Burnaby RCMP investigated the whereabouts o...
Mar 14, 2026 Missing Iranian mathematician Masood Masjoody (pictured) was found dead in Mission on March 6, 2026. (Image Credit: IHIT / Provided)
Surrey police arrest 61, seize over 300 grams of drugs in three-month transit station crackdown
SURREY - Transit police had been chasing an enforcement dragon at the Surrey Central Station over the past three months, leading to dozens of arrests and a garden variety of drugs being seized.On Nove...
Mar 14, 2026 A Metro Vancouver Transit Police-led project has yielded dozens of arrests and items consistent with drug trafficking and theft. (Image Credit: Metro Vancouver Transit Police)
High streamflow advisory issued for Lower Fraser ahead of rainy week
CHILLIWACK - The BC River Forecast Centre is issuing caution on river levels ahead of forecast rain in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley for most of the upcoming week.A high streamflow advisory is...
Mar 14, 2026 A high streamflow advisory has been issued for the Lower Fraser and its tributaries ahead of an incoming atmospheric river. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS / Darryl Dyck)
Cultus Lake reopens, many still without power in Chilliwack and Hope after windstorm
CHILLIWACK - Communities from Hope to Chilliwack are still cleaning up the remnants of a strong windstorm that struck on Wednesday night. At the time of writing, BC Hydro says roughly 234 Chilliwack r...
Mar 13, 2026 A downed tree along the Chilliwack River Valley. (Image Credit: Ross (Nikita) Aikenhead / Facebook)
Investigation ongoing after police pull over suspected drug traffickers in Mission
MISSION - Mounties helped prevent an apparent drug trafficking last week after conducting a traffic stop in Mission.Mission RCMP's Crime Reduction Unit pulled over a grey Hyundai Elantra after spottin...
Mar 13, 2026 Mission RCMP stop apparent drug trafficking incident after pulling over an Elantra (pictured). (Image Credit: Mission RCMP / File)
Fraser Health team receives research award to expand Indigenous caregiver program in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - Two Fraser Health teams have received new provincial grants to support the care of the region's eldest members.The Chilliwack-based Indigenous Caregiver Support Model is a home-based prog...
Mar 13, 2026 Indigenous Caregiver Support Model Clinical Team: Carrie Mastin, licensed practical nurse; Ryan Stone, clinical resource nurse; Rebecca Lundin, licensed practical nurse. (Image Credit: Fraser Health / Provided)
Burnaby RCMP respond to two threats in local high school this week
BURNABY - Police in Burnaby have been kept busy with unfounded threats at a local school this week.Frontline officers responded to a report at Burnaby North Secondary School just after 1 p.m. on Monda...
Mar 13, 2026 Burnaby RCMP responded to two unfounded threats at a local high school this week. (Image Credit: RCMP / File)
Unemployment rate holds steady in B.C., Fraser Valley in February: StatCan
CHILLIWACK - B.C. may have suffered some job losses in February, but the unemployment rate remains either unmoved - or improved - in the Fraser Valley, according to the latest data from Statistics Can...
Mar 13, 2026 File image of agriculture in Fraser Valley. (Image Credit: Modfos / Dreamstime)
Maple Ridge senior in mobility scooter struck by car dies in hospital
MAPLE RIDGE - The victim of a serious pedestrian collision early this week has since passed away in hospital, according to police in Maple Ridge. On Monday afternoon, March 9, Ridge Meadows RCMP was d...
Mar 13, 2026 (Image Credit: RCMP / File)